May 31, 2011

"A BAT who fell upon the ground and was caught by a Weasel pleaded to be spared his life. The Weasel refused, saying that he was by nature the enemy of all birds. The Bat assured him that he was not a bird, but a mouse, and thus was set free. Shortly afterwards the Bat again fell to the ground and was caught by another Weasel, whom he likewise entreated not to eat him. The Weasel said that he had a special hostility to mice. The Bat assured him that he was not a mouse, but a bird, and thus a second time escaped."

That's an Aesop fable. The official moral is: "It is wise to turn circumstances to good account."

Why didn't the bat just say he was a bat? He *could* have been consistent, and he could have been consistent *by telling the truth.* The answer must be: bats like jerking weasels around OR it was too late in the game for a weasel to learn what a bat is.

Why didn't the bat just say he was a bat? He *could* have been consistent, and he could have been consistent *by telling the truth.*

Hey, you're the one who made the bat the lawyer in this analogy. We are talking about lawyers, right? In which case (and not to confuse things further by introducing MORE animals) I would just say: fish gotta swim.

"Apollonius of Tyana, a 1st century CE philosopher, is recorded as having said about Aesop:

... like those who dine well off the plainest dishes, he made use of humble incidents to teach great truths, and after serving up a story he adds to it the advice to do a thing or not to do it. Then, too, he was really more attached to truth than the poets are; for the latter do violence to their own stories in order to make them probable; but he by announcing a story which everyone knows not to be true, told the truth by the very fact that he did not claim to be relating real events. (Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Book V:14)"

South Americans eat Capybarras during Lent and call them "fish." when the pope bought the souls of native americans, he paid with the right not to eat fish very friday but in good friday. Why cappibara? because is not cow or pork so some people eat it, Nobody here has ever call it fish.http://www.noticias24.com/actualidad/noticia/241308/iguanas-tortugas-y-carpinchos-manjares-de-la-semana-santa-en-colombia/In my knowledge the fish thing is is one of those internet legends. Abraham Lincoln

A fable is a fable. I see no moral componenta fable without a moral is not a fable. Greeck and romans were rough people. La Fontaine were not smother eithr butThey represent a simple fact of life the weak to survive need to outsamrt the strong. Aesop, Fedro and La Fontaine , who also wrote some erotic tales, presented a individualist ,egoist and realist moral:survive of the smartest.they were not intended for kids orthe weak of heart unable to survive

What is better to be in USA judge or lawyer?? I am a Law graduate myself but I don't know what job to begin? Lawyer, judge or notary? In my country notary men an women earned more than 150000 dollars a month before the crisis. Now I think they are like bankrupt...:) because of the few real estate transactions...they charged great taxes from the real estate transactions... The interesting fact is from what I've heard in USA notary is a job almost non existing... Their functions maybe are taken by the lawyers but I don't know for sure I don't know the USA system.

They challenged me and the other two people who were over 50. You see lawyers are like teachers. They can only bully kids who don't have their own opinions and life experiance where they can call bullshit.

Which was a real fuck-up for the defense attorney as I was totally sympathetic to her defendant and would have led the jury to get him off.

You see all of the kids they kept (all in their twenties or younger) were scared shitless. I was not. And I mocked the lawyers as best I could without being cited for contempt. I even made the tight assed female judge chuckle.

But they still dumped me because they were afraid.

Lawyers are essetnially bullies and they don't want anyone who would stand up to them.

They eliminated three people. A super liberal Jewish woman who was a writer and over fifty. A screen writer from LA who had moved to Williamsburg and was the epitome of the NPR listening prius driving tofu eating Robert Cooker. And me.

Of course we were all adults and the rest of them were kids. That the douchenozzle lawyers could bully.